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Goal: Help stabilise sexual and reproductive health in Côte d’Ivoire.

Overall objective: Increase the use of modern contraceptive methods among target groups.

Some specific objectives:

• Strengthen self-determination (self-efficacy) in family planning (FP) among women in unions in rural and peri-urban areas,
• Strengthen the support (social support) of the partners of women in rural and peri-urban areas for FP and increase their involvement in HIV prevention,
• Strengthen self-determination (self-efficacy) among urban young people aged 15-24 in preventing HIV and unintended pregnancy,
• Stabilise the programme’s cost-effectiveness ratio.

Priority intervention areas: Daloa, Man, Séguéla, San-Pedro, Korhogo, Abengourou, Yamoussoukro, Divo, Bouaké, Abidjan (Abobo, Anyama, Koumassi, Port-Bouët).

Contraceptive distribution: Contraceptives are distributed throughout the country via the pharmaceutical channel, the consumer goods channel, the BelFam social franchise network and private clinics.

Overall objective: Help strengthen the health system in Côte d’Ivoire and improve the health of women of reproductive age and newborns.

Specific objectives in the target regions:

• Increase the use of quality sexual and reproductive health services,
• Increase the use of reproductive health products,
• Supply health facilities and specific institutions with insecticide-treated nets,
• Prevent COVID-19 infection through a multichannel communication campaign, capacity building for health staff and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Priority intervention areas: Lôh-Djiboua and Haut-Sassandra.

The PRSS has two (2) components, Component 1 and Component 2, implemented respectively by the Directorate of Infrastructure, Equipment and Maintenance (DIEM), in cooperation with the Mother and Child Health Programme (PNSME), and by AIMAS.

Component 1: Within the Ministry of Health (MSHP), the DIEM, in close cooperation with the PNSME, is responsible for implementing the following measures:

• Upgrading (extension, rehabilitation and equipment) of public health facilities,
• Setting up a maintenance system,
• Setting up a quality assurance system,
• Setting up a continuing training system for health staff.

Component 1 operates exclusively in three (3) health districts: Issia, Vavoua and Divo.

Component 2: The measures to be carried out by AIMAS are as follows:

• Training health staff, mainly midwives and nurses, in contraceptive technology,
• Designing and implementing social and behaviour change communication strategies on sexual and reproductive health, with an emphasis on FP, HIV prevention, antenatal care, the risks of home births and the benefits of births assisted by health professionals,
• Community-based distribution (CBD) in the 2 PRSS intervention regions,
• Distribution of contraceptives, including condoms, throughout the country,
• Distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in health facilities and specific institutions in the 101 health districts,
• Running COVID-19 communication campaigns, training staff at treatment centres and distributing PPE.

Component 2 operates in the seven (07) health districts of the Lôh-Djiboua and Haut-Sassandra regions: Divo, Lakota, Guitry, Daloa, Issia, Vavoua and Zoukougbeu.

In addition to its own tasks and in line with the PRSS approach, AIMAS encourages families to visit the health centres in the Lôh-Djiboua and Haut-Sassandra regions rehabilitated under Component 1 to receive maternal and child health services.

Goal: Reduce HIV incidence in high-prevalence regions of Côte d’Ivoire through correct and consistent condom use during the first four years of SCSP implementation.

The specific objectives or intermediate results to be achieved are set out in the diagram.

From 2021 to 2022, the specific objectives were revised. The work involved developing messages and communication materials (TV and radio spots, posters, counselling cards, a directory of religious organisations, user guides for materials…) in order to:

• reduce stigma and improve knowledge of HIV and treatment through the local network of religious and community leaders, following the FCI (Faith and Community Initiative) model adapted to the Ivorian context;
• promote the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in DREAMS programme health districts, positioning PrEP as an attractive HIV prevention option for AGYW.

Priority areas for the revised objectives: DREAMS programme health districts (Cocody, Bingerville, Abobo, Daloa and Man).

Objectives: Help improve skills, access to information and use of services among young people and adolescent girls in sexual and reproductive health/HIV, and reduce early marriage among adolescent and young girls.

Priority intervention areas: Marahoué, Worodougou, Béré, Haut-Sassandra, Tonkpi and San-Pédro.

Objectives: Support the implementation of the regional media campaign “STRONGER TOGETHER”. Specifically, this involves:

• producing a single with 2 artists;
• collecting testimonies from women on women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship;
• broadcasting the communication materials produced on television, radio and social media;
• organising social mobilisation sessions.

Priority areas: In general, activities will cover all 21 regions of Côte d’Ivoire; the Stronger Together campaign will specifically target 4 regions: Gôh, Poro, Tonkpi and Gontougo.

Goal: Reduce maternal mortality in Côte d’Ivoire.

The related specific objectives are:

• Improve the availability of modern contraceptive methods (MCMs), including the emergency contraceptive pill, in private pharmacies and in the social franchise network.
• Increase target groups’ knowledge of MCMs.
• Run community mobilisation campaigns on family planning.
• Develop a social franchise network targeting private health centres exclusively.

Priority areas: San-Pedro, Soubré, Tabou, Sassandra, Fresco, Korhogo, Ferkessédougou, Niakara, Napié.

Objective: Run a campaign to fight street medicines. The campaign aimed to inform children aged 6 to 12 about the dangers of street medicines. Risk-reducing behaviours were promoted through education sessions, including the screening of a 5-minute awareness film, in selected primary schools. These schools were selected by mutual agreement between the pharmaceutical company UPSA and the Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage.

Intervention areas: 20 schools in the commune of Adjamé.